A LUCKY RACING MAN.

Otago Witness, Issue 2862, 20 January 1909, Page 62

A LUCKY RACING MAN.

Tho run of important racing successes that has followed the W«,t Australian sportsman, Mr P. A. Connolly, has shown. him up in the light of a much favoured child of Dame Fortune. One race in. particular that has claimed Mr Connolly's attention is the Perth Cup, and five years in succession the horse carrying his colours ha* led the field home, his successful equines be'ng Blue Spec (1905), Czarovitch (1906),. May Kin<r (1907), Po*t Town (1908), and Scorcher (19C9). The victory of Mr Connolly's horses in the Perth Cup alone represents a sum of £6000 in prize money, while the Turf Re<r;wter reveal* that h# alao won the Melbourne Cup with Bluei Spec and the Sydney Cup with Dyed Garments, which would mean, the .swelling of his banking account by another big6um. Success on the turf at times brings.* a deal of joy to the lucky man : but In. West Australia at Lea,«t Mr Connolly has had his little troubles. "Milrov-" of the Sydney Mail, =ays : — "Mr Coryjolly has won so many of the best races in the "\Veit that he has become unpopular. Nothing succeeds like lucres.-, says the old -kiw : but really nothing so conduces towards unpopularity as .success on tho turf. A. man in a moderate position may make a thousand fi tends a \ear, but if he strikes a rich vein he may look out, and keep hU powder dry. Mr Connolly complains that he has been, so badgered by stipendiary stewards of late a* to oause him to think that he was bein# particularly singled! out. While he claimed rbat he ran his hordes to win he felt that under present conditions the danger was too great, and after January 26 next he would refrain from further ra^injf in West Australia, and would run his horses, in the eastern. States."